Ogilvy & Mather London has created a new campaign for Royal Philips as part of a wider drive to change public perception of the brand. The latest activity supports Philips’ shift from its traditional image as an electronics company, to its present day status as a health-tech organisation that improves lives through meaningful innovations. Launching […]
Havas Media UK has announced that it is expanding its offering by opening its doors in Manchester. Building on the success of Havas Lynx, Havas PR and Havas People, the global marketing and communications group unveils the launch of the UK’s first Village offering across creativity, media, PR, data and technology in the form of […]
Following a competitive four-way pitch process, Thorpe Park Resort has hired creative brand communications agency Taylor Herring for retained consumer PR. Taylor Herring’s main remit will be to launch the theme park’s biggest investment to date – a new star attraction from the mind of renowned master of manipulation Derren Brown. The news was announced […]
Burger King rolled out a PR stunt in France that involved dishing out 100,000 tomatoes to customers in restaurants and then taking them as currency in exchange for a burger. In the activity by creative agency Buzzman, aimed at communicating the fact that it uses fresh tomatoes, it handed out thousands of the red fruits […]
Zaid Al-Zaidy, CEO of advertising agency McCann London is taking the latest Apprentice casualty to task on BBC Two’s The Apprentice: You’re Fired. Together with host Jack Dee, the show’s regular panelist Romesh Ranganathan and journalist Grace Dent, Zaid will critique this week’s teams and their attempt to create an ad campaign for a new […]
Chester Cheetah, the official spokes-cheetah of the Cheetos brand, one of the flagship brands from PepsiCo‘s Frito-Lay division, has earned his paw print and a permanent place on the Advertising Week Walk of Fame in New York City. The winning brand icons were announced at the NASDAQ Market Site in Times Square. “We’re thrilled that […]
McDonald’s has partnered with the Roald Dahl Literary Estate and Penguin Random House Children’s UK to bring even more fun to the joy of reading as part of the latest Happy Meal promotion. From 23rd September to 3rd November, McDonald’s will be distributing exclusive Roald Dahl books as part of the Happy Meal. Each book […]
Super excited! Out installation for #LDF15 goes live later today. It’s for a great cause @PutRedBack #PutRedBack https://t.co/0SRdWXjCUd — Cheil UK (@CheilUK) September 21, 2015 Cheil UK is launching a new social initiative, #PutRedBack, which aims to raise awareness of the restrictions on gay men donating blood, and to help shift the debate. The #PutRedBack […]
Cheil UK has launched a campaign today that harnesses the power of a tweeting kettle, to support and boost donations for the charity Maytree, who care for people in a suicidal crisis. The kettle has been specially adapted so that each time it is turned on, a sensor within the kettle will publish a tweet, […]
Thinkmodo, the viral video agency, are stoking hype ahead of the release of Fantastic Four with the creation of a pyrotechnic human torch drone which has been lighting up the skies above New York City. With the film set to open at theatres this week Thinmodo set about building a human shaped drone to resemble […]